Curriculum Development Specialist - Organizational Resilience (Contract)

Job Description

Job Description

The purpose of this contract is to engage a highly skilled professional with expertise in trauma resilience, organizational health, and well-being to co-develop and finalize a comprehensive two-tier curriculum focused on fostering trauma-resilient community culture and enhancing organizational health.

This curriculum will equip human service organizations, particularly those working in communities impacted by violence, poverty, and suicide intervention with the knowledge, structure, and tools to embed trauma-informed, healing-centered practices across individual, team, and systemic levels.

The curriculum consists of 2-tier training model :

• Tier 1 – Leadership & Organizational Strategy : Advanced training for organizational leaders who are responsible for implementing, modeling, and sustaining trauma-informed practices, focusing on leadership and organizational strategies for fostering resilience, psychological safety, and healing in a professional setting.
• Tier 2 – Foundational & Community Application : Foundational training for all other participants (community members, families, youth, and staff), focusing on fundamental concepts of trauma awareness, resilience-building strategies, and the importance of emotional and physical safety within communities. Emphasis and lens is placed on suicide prevention and violence prevention through empowerment, engagement, collaboration, and advocacy.

The Contractor will serve as a key content creation / writing expert, working collaboratively with another Curriculum Development Specialist in Community Resilience to :

Required Expertise :

The contractor shall be compensated at an (hourly based) rate for services rendered. The specific services and their corresponding rates are as follows : $81.25 per hour, not to exceed $650 per day.

The Services are to be performed at the following location and type :

This engagement will be conducted in a hybrid format, primarily through remote collaboration supported by scheduled virtual meetings and feedback sessions. In-person meetings may be arranged, as needed, for contractors located within reasonable driving distance or when doing so would enhance collaboration and the overall learning experience.

Primary address of business operations is :

1015 Dorsey Lane, Louisville, Kentucky 40223

Contract period : 11 / 1 / 2025 – 4 / 30 / 2026

Projected # of hours : 530 hours over 5 months